Safe recovery

Use safe recovery with Entire machine or Disks/volumes backups of Windows workloads to ensure that you recover only malware-free data, even if the backup contains infected files.

During a safe recovery operation, the backup is automatically scanned for malware. Then, the protection agent recovers the backup on the target workload and deletes any infected files. As a result, a malware-free backup is recovered.

Additionally, one of the following statuses is assigned to the backup:

• Malware detected
• No malware
• Not scanned

You can use the status to filter the backup archives.

Limitations

• Safe recovery is supported for physical and virtual Windows machines on which a protection agent is installed.
• Safe recovery is supported for Entire machine and Disks/volumes backups.
• Only NTFS volumes are scanned for malware. Non-NTFS volumes are recovered without antimalware scanning.

• Safe recovery is not supported for the Continuous data protection (CDP) backup in the archive. To recover the data from the CDP backup, run an additional Files/folders recovery operation. For more operation about the CDP backups, see Continuous data protection (CDP).